Ventilated filler sole



Sep. 26, @3%. A. MoRcATE 2,174,473

VENTILATED FILLER SOLE Filed Jan. 29, 1937 K 5 4 /7 77702^cae Patented sept. 26, 1939 2,174,473

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VENTILATED FILLER SOLE Angel Morcate, Montevideo, Uruguay Application January 29, 1937, Serial No. 123,049 In Argentina August 25, 1936 1 Claim. (Cl. Sti- 3) This invention refers to improvements in the shown in Figs. 1 and 4, between the insole 6 and manufacture of footwear provided with a device the outsole 1. To this end and in order toi obfor Ventilating the foot, thus eliminating the tain the desired ventilation, insole 6 is provided forced confinement which the foot suffers with With a number of orifices 8 which coincide with the use of the footwear known heretofore and orifices 2 of member I.

which causes such foot troubles as muscular In order to securely place and adapt insert tiredness, itiching, eczema, fetid perspiration and member l between the sole and insole of the footthe likel wear, suitable means known in the manufacture My invention consists of a device in the shape of footwear, such as supplements, fillings and the l0 of a at box, of any convenient form, perferably like may be used. 1

that following the shape of the sole, provided It is to be understood that the position of the with a number of orifices in its upper cover which Ventilating device which I have invented is not communicate with the interior space of the footlimited to that shown in the drawing, as the dewear and of one or more conduits which connect vice may be positioned to cover part or the whole the interior or chamber of the device with the of the sole and/or instep and/or heel. 15

ambient air. In actual practice the foot receives through The present invention is preferably adapted to conduit 5, chamber 4 and orices 2 and 8 the be applied between the insole and outsole of footnecessary air for cutaneous respiration thus prewear, the insole having orifices whereby the venventing excess and/or fetid perspiration with all tilation 0f the foot is efciently effected. its inconveniences, especially in long walks and 20 In order that my invention may be fully imderin summer time stood and carried into practice, I have illustrated The member I may also be flexible for better it in the accompanying drawing in whichcomfort and in taking in and expelling the air Fig. l is a longitudinal section of a shoe, in elerOm Chamber 4 When Walking and in Similar vation, showing my device. movements of the foot, in this manner the air 25 Fig. 2 shows an elevation of the shoe which being Constantly renewed A150, OIfICeS 8 may is shown in Fig. 1. not be necessary if the insole is made sufficiently Fig. 3 is a plan view of my device as applied to DOIOUS. the Shoe Inorder to prevent water entering the shoe Fig. 4 is a cross section of Fig. 3 on line A-B. through conduit 5 in rainy weather and the like, 30

Fig. 5 is a View 0f one 0f the orices in my COndUit 5 maybe ConVenleIltly closed by any Suitdevice able means, such as a stopper, or by carrying the My invention consists of a boxlike device hav- Outlet 0T mouth 0f COIldll 5 t0 a DOSOH higher ing in its upper part 01- cover a, number 0f orifices than the thickness of the S016. In Such Case C011- 36 2. So as to avoid the crushing or fiattening of duit 5 may be square or of any other shape. 3o my device by the weight of the person using it, It is to be understood thatcertain modifications my device may be provided with suitable means, in the COHSIIICOH O my device may be made' such as vertical supports 3 formed by the downwti'nout departing from the object of the invenwardly depressed part of the material of the tion as claimed in the following Claim.

40 upper part of the box I partly cut out to form I claim: o the orifices 2, as shown in Figs, 1, 4 and 5. In a shoe, the combination with an outer sole The present invention which comprises the and an inner sole, of a hollow air chamber intermember I may be made of one or more pieces, posed between said soles and comprising a lower the principal object in its construction being the wall and a perforated upper wall, supports interformation of a space or air chamber 4 between posed between said walls to retain said walls in 45 the two surfaces or covers of the box. This spaced relation, said supports comprising downchamber 4 is provided with one or more conduits wardly bent projections struck out from the upcommunicating with the ambient air for example per wall at the time the perforations are provided by means of a conduit 5 which terminates, opentherein, and said air chamber having a connecly or partly concealed, at any convenient point tion providing an air passage between said inner 50 at the edge of the sole, preferably at that side sole and said chamber and the exterior of the corresponding to the big toe, as shown in Figs. shoe.

2, 3 and 4. ANGEL MORCATE.

The insole member I is preferably placed, as 

